Bowling Green, KY —
OSHA Injury Report: Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products in Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was casting Operator in automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products
- Parent company
- Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products LLC
- Street
- One Kobe Way
- City
- Bowling Green
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 42101
- On-site location
- Casting 1 Transfer
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 31
Before the incident
Operator was scrapping metal from the transfer launder.
What happened
While doing so the metal splashed and was able to contact the operator 's glove. Glove was not properly placed inside glove. This allowed the metal to reach the operators thumb causing a burn.
Injury or illness
Burn to the base of the right thumb.
Object or substance involved
Molten Aluminum caused burn to associate right thumb.
Summary line
Burn to the base of the right thumb.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Casting Operator
- SOC code
- 9999 — Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 332613 — Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 866
- Total hours worked
- 1603353
- Establishment ID
- 900262
- Employer case #
- 2443
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 5:00
- Time of incident
- 11:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 08JAN2025:17:50:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.